a new year...

i started the new year with sore blisters on the lower back of my feet just above the heel... x-country skiing was quite fun except for the heat it generated! unlike the cold-sweat experienced during downhill skiing associated with keeping the adrenaline pumping and gearing one's footwork in time to prolong the descent, you do get a decent workout from sliding horizontally...

for the last week or so, i was down with a sniffly bout of cold thanks to some upper respiratory bug that's been having a fun journey during the winter season... i seem to be the last one at the lab to fall prey to it's virulent curse... but ah well... at least i believe in the idea of re-programming my natural immune system through recovery!

trying to gear up for the oral defense is proving a little over-whelming... i've not done anything like this before... and everyone's experience is different. i am also regretting churning up the 200 pages of scientific garb which i submitted... it means there's a lot of possible opportunities for intellectual attacks and criticisms that i will have to defend. i guess the hardest bit of it all is to push aside memories of the rather frustrating journey in getting to where i am now... to end it off in a positive light.

a recurrently renewed resolution is to try to get up earlier to enjoy the peaceful mornings... it's quite a difficult one... for most of you will know me as a night owl... oh well. thing is, i love the mystery of early mornings and the quietness that is present in the beginning of a new day.

i want this new year to be more positive than the last. i want to try to do things i love, and find out what i really want out of my insignificant existence... i'd love to surprise myself... dance a ceilidh again, feel loved, be appreciated for what i can do / achieve, and 'cook up a [perpetual] storm' in the kitchen, to travel, read, learn in all different ways... and be. i can't wait for the end of this phd ordeal... i can't wait!

posted by ~overacuppa~ on Sunday, 6 January, 2008 at 17:55 hrs